Two Mountain Boys returned from Gloucester and reported to Tumult and Glitch that phone service was out. "I don't understand," said Glitch.
"We don't need to understand," Tumult directed four attack packs with concealed Glocks to secure trucks and buses for transport. "If this outage is around for only two hours it will put us out of reach."
Washington, D.C. (March 18)
Colonel Greely sat impatiently in one of the seventh century, rosewood chairs facing the President's desk. Perched in its cage near the window, the falcon ominously surveyed the skies with apprehension. The Boston Fiasco, as Greely referred to it, was unresolved. If some of the Mountain Boys were still in the city, he wanted to isolate them and extract them.
The Colonel knew for certain that they had left in the night; enough ships were stolen in the harbor to transport a small army. Another disturbing fact: A Navy, ZF-4 Pursuit had been downed by a hand-held rocket, a U.S. model. But what really threw the nation into a tizzy was when a group of Mountain Boys from outside the city severed the fiber-optic trunks of all the larger cities throughout New England. They were more than just severed, they were blown out, leaving behind a melted tangle that would prove difficult to restore. All monetary transactions ceased throughout the East. It impacted financial markets nationwide, not to mention worldwide. The Colonel was not pleased to be called in, "I don't have time for this dog defecation, Mr. Bennett. What are we waitin' for? I got things to do."
"We're waiting for the President of the United States, Colonel," Chief of Staff Lucas Bennett said soundly as he rubbed his tattoo with a finger. The Colonel's very presence irritated Lucas. "I think that's reason enough, don't you? If you hadn't screwed up in Boston we wouldn't be having a strategy meeting."
"You Federal Boys are into meetings, aren't you?" Colonel Greely jeered.
"We're into getting things right."
"Why is it someone always has to be at fault? Can't things just happen? Couldn't the other guy have done something right? Or doesn't that work in politics?"
"You had them on the tower, Colonel, and you blew it!" the Chief of Staff criticized. "We have to take out that Tobacco Bunch before the fall elections. At any cost!"
"So this is about getting you reelected. Well, I wasn't about to blow up an entire skyscraper and damage other buildings around it to get you reelected. And they aren't Tobacco Boys, as you like to call them. We ID'ed some of their dead and they're from all over the country. Some from Missouri. The gangs in Boston referred to them as Ghost Pack 220. That was the pack number of the Dixville group of Scouts killed, wasn't it? I need to know the whole story, Bennett. Are all the rumors about Dixvil--?" The Colonel stopped in mid-sentence to stare at a speck in the sky over D.C.'s downtown. "That's not a real plane." He squinted and leaned forward. "It's a scale model of a bird."
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